91ST CONGRESS 1ST SESSION S. 2753 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES JULY 31 (legislative day, JULY 30), 1969 Mr. JAVITS (for himself and Mr. PROUTY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act so as further to as 1 sist in meeting the Nation's needs for adequately trained personnel in the allied health professions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 4 SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Veterans in 5 Allied Health Professions and Occupations Act of 1969." 6 7 DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds and declares: (1) 8 that the accelerating needs for health manpower to provide 9 personal health care and environmental health services has 2 1 been attested by national studies, task forces, congressional 2 hearings, and such groups of experts as the participants in 3 the White House Conference on Health, the Third National 4 Conference on Public Health Training, the National Re5 search Council, and the President's National Advisory Com6 mission on Health Manpower; (2) that programs should be 7 designed to encourage men and women who have received 8 training in a health occupation while on active duty in the 9 Armed Forces-an important source of health manpower— 10 and others to seek employment in the health fields in urban 11 and rural areas; (3) that the cooperation of professional 12 groups, practitioners in the various health professions, edu13 cational institutions, treatment facilities, licensing boards, 14 and those responsible for training health technicians and 15 technologists in the military will be necessary to accom16 plish the most efficient utilization of such veterans in the 17 allied health professions; (4) that a health careers program 18 utilizing such veterans and others should be developed and 19 conducted to help alleviate critical manpower shortages in 20 the allied health professions; and (5) that a program must 21 actively encourage improved techniques of training and re22 training, provide for substantial financial assistance to stu23 dents, and at all times be sufficiently flexible to meet the 24 personnel needs of a constantly changing health system. 1 3 AMENDMENTS TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT 2 SEC. 3. (a) Title VII of the Public Health Service Act 3 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 4 sections: 5 6 "SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS "SEC. 799. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make 7 grants to and enter into contracts with any public or non8 profit private agency, organization, or institution to encour9 age and assist it in meeting the costs of special projects to 10 plan, develop, or establish new programs or modifications of 11 existing programs of training or retraining of allied health 12 professions personnel, including programs adapted to take 13 advantage of the interests and skills of veterans with previous 14 experience in the health fields and including the recruitment, 15 selection, and enrollment of such veterans in such programs, 16 which will help to increase the supply of adequately trained 17 allied health professions personnel to meet the health needs 18 of the Nation and with the objective of providing care more 19 efficiently and increasing the quality of health care. 20 "(b) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 21 this section, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated 22 $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $20,23 000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and such 4 sums as may be necessary for each of the next two fiscal 1 2 years. 3 "GRANTS AND CONTRACTS TO ENCOURAGE FULL UTILIZA 4 TION OF EDUCATIONAL TALENT FOR THE ALLIED 5 HEALTH PROFESSIONS 6 "SEC. 799a. (a) To assist in meeting the need for addi tional trained personnel in the allied health professions, the Secretary is authorized to make grants to or to enter into con tracts (without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5)) with State or local educational agen cies, or other public or nonprofit private agencies, institu tions, or organizations or enter into contracts (without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5)) with public or private agencies, institutions, or organizations, for the purpose of― "(1) identifying veterans of the Armed Forces with training or experience in the health fields and other individuals of financial, educational, or cultural need with a potential for education or training in the allied health professions and encouraging and assisting them, whenever appropriate, to (i) complete secondary school, (ii) undertake such postsecondary training as may be required to qualify them for training in the allied health professions, and (iii) undertake postsecondary educa tional training in the allied health professions, or 1 2 2 3 4 5 "(2) publicizing existing sources of financial aid available to persons undertaking training or education in the allied health professions (including aid furnished under this part). 5 "(b) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions 6 of this section, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated 7 $750,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $1,500,8 000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and such sums 9 as may be necessary for each of the next two fiscal years. 10 11 12 13 14 16 18 "SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS "SEC. 799b. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make (in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe) grants to public or nonprofit private agencies, organizations or institutions with an established program for training or 15 retraining of personnel in the allied health professions or occupations and to training centers for the allied health pro17 fessions for (1) scholarships to be awarded by such agency, organization, institution, or center to students thereof, and (2) scholarships in retraining programs of such agency, organization, institution, or center to be awarded to allied health professions personnel in occupations for which such agency, organization, institution or center determines there 19 20 21 222 23 24 is a need for the development of, or the expansion of, training. "(b) Scholarships made by any agency, organization, institution, or training center from grants under subsection |